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Due to the sheer randomness of unstable portal and the rare use of Arcane intellect you might want to try replacing those 4 cards with more reliable minions. Instead of double Intellect many people play Piloted Shredder or if you wanted to steer more into control then you could craft a Big Game Hunter. For the double portal, with the amount of spells you have, why not try running kobald geomancer for extra spell efficiency or Dalaran aspirant since his spell dmg can stack

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Due to the sheer randomness of unstable portal and the rare use of Arcane intellect you might want to try replacing those 4 cards with more reliable minions. Instead of double Intellect many people play Piloted Shredder or if you wanted to steer more into control then you could craft a Big Game Hunter. For the double portal, with the amount of spells you have, why not try running kobald geomancer for extra spell efficiency or Dalaran aspirant since his spell dmg can stack

Could you explain why Arcane Intellect has rare use, in general terms? My Mage decks always include 2 for the card draw as there don't seem to be a whole lot of options for this with Mages.

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Due to the sheer randomness of unstable portal and the rare use of Arcane intellect you might want to try replacing those 4 cards with more reliable minions. Instead of double Intellect many people play Piloted Shredder or if you wanted to steer more into control then you could craft a Big Game Hunter. For the double portal, with the amount of spells you have, why not try running kobald geomancer for extra spell efficiency or Dalaran aspirant since his spell dmg can stack

Could you explain why Arcane Intellect has rare use, in general terms? My Mage decks always include 2 for the card draw as there don't seem to be a whole lot of options for this with Mages.

Arcane Intellect won't help your board. It was used because there were not enough good tempo cards, but now with TGT, it can (and maybe should) be swapped. Sottle added Rhonin, Poly:Boar, Effigy and spellslinger to his tempo mage deck. Since we're talking about a 3 mana spell, the swap should be either Poly:Boar or Spellslinger (since he already has one Effigy).

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You have the Azure Drakes for card draw. Other than that, I think you should not need them in this type of deck (definitely not two). I would disagree on the portal, however. It can be game winning on early turns and even later it has some great synergy with flamewaker as it is a cheap spell.